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Miscellaneous Parodies of Lord Byron’s Works.
A very large number of Parodies of Byron’s poems have been produced in the form of small pamphlets, either on political or social events, or of purely local interest. It will be sufficient to enumerate the principal of these, the curious in such matters can easily refer to them in the Library of the British Museum.
The Age of Soapsuds. A Satire, by Lord Vyron. London. W. Edwards, 1839; pp. 15.
In his preface the author remarks: “We live in an age of bubbles, and if the ‘Soapsud’ of the following lines seem blown about on the gale of fancy—all I can say is, I write to please myself, and not the critics.”
Despair: A Vision. Derry Down and John Bull: A Simile. Being two Political Parodies on “Darkness,” and a scene from “The Giaour,” by Lord Byron. London. T. Hughes 1820.—Political, and of no interest at present.
Arlis’s Pocket Magazine for 1825, contained a parody of “The Maid of Athens,” entitled Sarah, I Love Thee.
Railway Adventures and Anecdotes, edited by Richard Pike, 1884, contains a parody on the lines commencing—“There was a sound of Revelry by night.”
The Mongrelites; or, The Radicals so-called. A Satiric Poem. By ——. Published in New York, by Van Evrie, Horton and Co., in 1866 (59 pp.)
This is said by the author to be an imitation of Byron’s “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” but as it relates to the party politics of the United States it does not come within the scope of this collection.